Why You Need To Attend Investor Awareness Programs

The topics of discussion are related to current affairs such as the impact of central government budget on economy, the recent developments in capital market, and an insight into the investment opportunities arising out of budget allocations to various sectors.

Your morale Booster

One of the good things about such #investor awareness programs is that you get to know how naive people are with relation to investing in any asset class for that matter. They fail to know that if the underlying business prospers the mutual fund price would follow. Most of them believe in complete luck and are in dark why stocks move up! So by participating in an investor awareness program, you will get to know how you are shaped as a investor and how well ahead are you with respect to others. Your confidence level ought to go up attending such investor awareness programmes.

Flock with birds of the same feather

In a country where people are obsessed with investing in real estate and gold, investor awareness programmes conducted are places where you could find retail equity investors. Retail investors of different investing acumen attend such investor awareness conventions. Take time to find investors of your wave length among the crowd. Take initiative to interact with the people whom you think are intellectuals. If you want to gravitate upwards in investing, you have to mingle with people who are better than you.

Gain different perspectives on the subject

When you attend such investor awareness programmes, you get different perspectives on the subject discussed by the speakers. Sometimes you grasp things better by hearing than reading.

Get vital clues

Owing to the legalities involved, sometimes newspapers and magazines may not be able to publish all the information they have at hands (such as rumors and gossips). You may not get bad intentions of a company’s management on its annual reports either. However, you get vital information about crooked promoters, dishonest managements. So participation in such investor awareness programs aids us with information about companies to avoid investing. #Information is wealth.

Clear doubts

We are in an age of information aplenty, thanks to the Internet. However, there may still remain doubts without clear answers. So, these awareness programs are where you can find answer to your queries. Usually, most of the investor programmes end up with a question and answer session. You can take advantage of this session to clear your doubts on the subject matter of discussion. Writing down the queries that you would like to raise beforehand would be useful.

The Bottom Line

Though such investor awareness programmes are aimed at getting new clients for the brokers, do not shy away from participating in such conferences or programs in your town. It is not a waste of time if you are interested in investing directly in equities or in mutual funds or any other product dealt by the stock exchanges. Just consider it as a social get together.

For attending such investor education programmes, you are not traveling far either. Most of the times such initiatives are provided free to the investors. You just need the will to attend and make some adjustments in your schedules. The benefits are many if your mind is open to learning.